Employer attitudes toward the work traits of eight types of disabled workers were variable. There were significant differences on attitudes toward the specific groups of disabled on eleven of the twelve work traits. The blind and mentally retarded would encounter the greatest employer discrimination while more favorable attitudes were shown toward hiring epileptics and amputees. Across all types of disabilities, the greatest concerns were lower work productivity, higher accident and workman compensation rates. The differential ratings have implications for placement strategies.

This article reviews the existing empirical literature related to the practice component in counselor education. The evidence strongly indicates that the current understanding of the practice component in training is quite limited. The authors discuss several tentative explanations for the discrepancy between the widespread application of practice in training and the near absence of empirical guidelines for its use, present weaknesses in related research methodology, and advance several recommendations for future research in this area.

This study examined the appropriateness of using the Self-Directed Search (SDS) with Native American Indian high school students. Inventory scores between two different Indian tribes were compared, and then comparisons were made with national normative data. The Native American students differed among themselves on 4 of the 12 scale comparisons, and there were 6 differences on the 24 scale comparisons with the normative groups. The Indian samples showed higher intercorrelational coefficients among the SDS scales than the normative groups. The Indian high school students were also more inconsistent in their SDS codes and different in the distribution of their highpoint codes. It was concluded that the SDS may be an inappropriate instrument for use with these Native American high school students unless local norms are also considered.In increasing numbers Native American youth are remaining in high school and are planning to attend postsecondary and higher educational institutions. Chavers (1982) has called this movement into higher education an "explosion" and noted that the number of Indians attending college has increased from only about 1,400 in 1963 to 30,000 in 197830,000 in . Havighurst (1981 on the same theme, wrote that Indian youth are becoming a part of the economic mainstream by becoming more educated and trained to meet the demands of the labor market. Yet Wilson (1982) found that a primary factor contributing to their difficulties in succeeding in higher education is lack of educational and career planning.Despite the increasing numbers of Native Americans planning to broaden their career options, little is known about their inventoried vocational interest profiles. Only a few studies have addressed this topic and they have produced mixed results. Anadon (1977) and Scott and Anadon (1980) found nonsubstantial differences on the American College Testing Program Examination (ACT) Interest Inventory between college-bound Native Americans and Caucasians. However, Epperson and Hammond (1981) criticized the Anadon sample as possibly too elitist and cautioned about making generalizations to other Indians. In turn they presented their own study with 9th-grade Zuni Indian students. They found such large differences on the scales of the Kuder General Interest Survey, Form E, between Requests for reprints should be sent to

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For 151 male bachelor's degree university graduates, expressed choices measured by preferences made as high school seniors on the American College Test Student Profile Section were significantly more accurate predictors of graduating college major and of career entry occupation than were their Vocational Preference Inventory high point codes. There was no relationship between the Vocational Preference Inventory high point codes and the expressed choices.